Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an "experimental" phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.
Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an "experimental" phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.
Christopher Braider is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment 1. The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression 2. The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten’s London Peepshow 3. Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt’s Individual 4. Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fayre 5. Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière 6. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves 7. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made
Introduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment 1. The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression 2. The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten’s London Peepshow 3. Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt’s Individual 4. Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fayre 5. Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière 6. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves 7. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made
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